--- title: A cock finds a pea in the part of a cottage under the floor, and beg… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: A cock finds a pea in the part of a cottage under the floor, and begins calling to the hens; the cottager hears the call, drives away the cock, and pours water over the pea. Who acts: cock, cottager. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cock, cottager), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:51:109 # text = A cock finds a pea in the part of a cottage under the floor, and begins calling to the hens; the cottager hears the call, drives away the cock, and pours water over the pea. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 pea pea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 cottage cottage NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 under under ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 begins begin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 18 calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 xcomp _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 hens hen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 cottager cottager NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 hears hear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 drives drive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 30 away away ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 pours pour VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 36 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 over over ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 pea pea NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present | a cock | a pea | | the part of a cottage under the floor | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Topic | | 2 | **begin** | present | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **call** | gerund | | | the hens | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to hen=Recipient | | 4 | **hear** | present | the cottager | the call | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus | | 5 | **drive away** | present | the cottager *not said here* | the cock | | | | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Theme | | 6 | **pour** | present | a cock *not said here* | water | | the pea | | | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/108/) - next →: [sentence 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/110/) - ↑ back to [Ghost Stories., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/)